‘Brain-dead’ coaches blamed for lack of progress

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HE IS not naming names, unlike Roy Keane at Manchester United, but Dave Collins, the UK Athletics performance director, believes that some of the country’s best-known coaches are seriously lacking in attitude. Describing them as “brain-dead” on the UKA website, Collins asks how their athletes can expect to improve while they stagnate.

Collins’s missile has been accompanied by an admission from David Moorcroft, the UKA chief executive, that his sport has been stuck in the blocks.

“I have seen other sports — rugby, cricket, rowing, cycling, sailing — move forward significantly in the last seven to eight years and athletics